Events in History
- Sep 1 Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
- Sep 4 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Sep 5 Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20 passengers killed
- Sep 5 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
- Sep 5 NASA launches DOD-1
- Sep 6 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
- Sep 6 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
- Sep 6 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
Event of Interest
Sep 7 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Capetown
Assassination Attempt
Sep 7 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, kills 5 people
- Sep 9 Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
- Sep 9 NYC jury indicts Soviet United Nations employee Gennadly Zakharov of spying
- Sep 10 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
- Sep 11 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
Event of Interest
Sep 11 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak receives Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
- Sep 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 12 240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Sep 12 Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly
- Sep 12 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
- Sep 14 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
- Sep 14 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
- Sep 15 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
- Sep 16 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
- Sep 17 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
- Sep 17 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
- Sep 17 Mets clinch NL East Championship
- Sep 17 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
- Sep 19 US Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
- Sep 20 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
- Sep 21 Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
- Sep 22 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
- Sep 23 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
- Sep 23 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
- Sep 25 Antonin Scalia appointed to US Supreme Court
- Sep 26 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
- Sep 26 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
- Sep 27 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
- Sep 29 "Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA
- Sep 29 USSR releases American journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
- Sep 30 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy
- Sep 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 30 US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
Birthdays in History
- Sep 19 Gerald Ciolek, German professional road racing cyclist, born in Cologne, Germany
Weddings in History
Calvin Klein
Sep 26 Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds assistant Kelly Rector in a civil ceremony in Italy
Deaths in History
- Sep 7 Ruth Polsky, American record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
- Sep 12 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter, dies at 92
- Sep 21 Pierre Wigny, Belgium politician (Minister of Foreign affairs 1958-61), dies at 81
- Sep 25 Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), dies at 77
- Sep 25 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist, dies at 77
- Sep 25 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 90
- Sep 28 Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies
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